Among the the bills that passed include one to tax digital downloads and another to tax digital advertising.

Several groups advocating for election rights delivered a letter to Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan on Wednesday urging him to offer widespread voting by mail in the June primary and to establish a voting rights task force.

Maryland voters will decide in November whether to legalize gambling on sporting events. On Wednesday, the final day of this year’s truncated legislative session, the General Assembly approved a measure placing a referendum on the fall ballot.

A freshman delegate has resigned from the House of Delegates after completing the abbreviated 2020 General Assembly session.

Nearly every Maryland General Assembly session is overtaken in the last days by an issue that bubbles to the top and demands action.

The Maryland General Assembly passed more than 650 bills in a three-day sprint as lawmakers rushed to adjourn their legislative session nearly three weeks early because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The Maryland General Assembly adjourned in a most unusual way on Wednesday, with sunlight breaking through the Tiffany glass chamber ceilings and polite applause replacing the typically boisterous final moments at midnight.

The Legislative Black Caucus held leadership elections on the final day of the legislative session and three of four incumbents were defeated.

Maryland lawmakers left the State House briskly after adjourning Sine Die under the most trying circumstances Wednesday.

An investigation of wage and hours practices by Baltimore Comptroller Joan M. Pratt has been opened by the U.S. Department of Labor, multiple sources tell The Brew.

For the first time since the Civil War, Maryland lawmakers cut short their annual session Wednesday after passing sweeping reforms to education, a plan to rebuild the Pimlico Race Course and emergency legislation to address the spread of the coronavirus.